SUMMARY

• The European Commission has published a draft Implementing Regulation on the functioning of the Digital Product Passport registry, established under Article 13 of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). Members can find the draft document attached.
• The draft sets out proposed implementation arrangements for the registry, including access management, verification of economic operators, registration and storage of unique identifiers, commodity codes, product parameters and registry data.
• Please note that the text is still in draft form and has not yet been adopted or endorsed by the European Commission.

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The draft Implementing Regulation would apply to products subject to Digital Product Passport requirements under the ESPR, as well as to other product groups covered by Union legislation requiring a DPP and registration in the ESPR registry, including batteries, construction products, toys and detergents.

The draft covers several operational aspects of the registry, including:

• access to the registry and verification of economic operators and value chain actors (art. 4, 5, 6);
• the technical set-up of the registry, including the semantic repository, data exchange models and software release management (art. 3, 11, 12);
• the registration and storage of unique identifiers, commodity codes and, where relevant, product parameters such as models, batches and items (art. 8, 9);
• the status, update and deletion of registered DPP data, as well as measures to prevent improper or fraudulent use of the registry (art. 10, 14, 17).

As the text remains a draft, its provisions may still change before adoption.

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